Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
He was a quality thinker regardless of politics.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s also a good example of how tariffs, like all taxes, are actually a tight money policy, and that Trump isn’t crazy at all for jawboning the fed hard.
Tarrifs plus student loan collections plus rates remaining high plus Aca subsidies lapsing etc etc etc. Are all tight money and a brake on the economy. No stimulus to overcome it.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Hear hear gr. The opposition abandons all values to “get trump”
never seen the notion so strong.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)These were not good women. What a shitshow.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Just an awful circumstance all around that is being fanned to flame up new riots ahead of midterms.
Renee Good was instigating. That doesn’t in any way condemn her but it puts her in the midst of professional law enforcement in stressed circumstances. She was (as I understand) a person who had some training in how to agitate near ICE.
She did not deserve to die. I can say that with certainty. Neither did the agent she struck with her car (indisputable evidence on that) deserve or sign up to be hit by cars. The moment she gunned her car in his direction, he was in fight mode.
Had the agent been dragged under the car, say if he had stepped left instead of right, this would be minor news. But, since he decided to fire at her, it’s a national incident.
she acted stupidly, from the point she put herself in harms way to the critical instigating point of gunning the motor in the general direction of an agent. She didn’t deserve to die any more than a person dancing on the edge of a cliff does, but the risk was there and the agent’s first shot looked completely justifiable.
that said, I’m not sure the two additional rounds he fired into the passenger window will pass muster. He may be in legal jeopardy if those were overkill.
this whole thing, which is almost completely on video, is the most fascinating Rorschach test I have seen. People literally watch the video and say “she didn’t hit him with her car” when it’s plain as day. They also say “good shoot” without the nuance that there may be excessive force.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Shoot the messenger. Sometimes literally.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I hope New York becomes a shining beacon of failure for all voters to learn from.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Have to admit, the wife and I walked all over sf in early November and I was fairly impressed with how clean and orderly things were. We walked through the tenderloin (have I mentioned I’m 6’7” and still pushing 300 lbs?) and it wasn’t that bad. A couple of blocks of people hanging out but not a bunch of fecal matter.
maybe Lurie is onto something.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)There are a lot of signs that can be read as possibly negative, but my opinion on the two anecdotes is they may not be.
Las Vegas have done it to themselves. What used to be a good value for your dollar to go and play has become extractive. There isn’t a good deal to be had on the strip. Used to be you could at least play some $5 blackjack when you got tired or wiped out. No longer.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)When ICE raids were reportedly planned for charlotte a few months ago, and word got around, the city basically looked like the pandemic. No traffic, empty stores, empty schools.
Methinks the illegals are way, way underestimated.
The good news is that Trump’s agenda is looking very effective on this front. Real wages are up and housing may moderate a bit.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I thought California was voting on a wealth tax this year? NYT just reported on it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/technology/california-wealth-tax-page-thiel.html?smid=url-share
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Nah. I think unemployment is going to win. Everything in the world is monetized right now, and people will eventually stop buying and cancel subscriptions etc.
I chatted up a guy behind the desk of a combination pawn shop / gun shop yesterday. He is the owner. I asked him how Christmas was going. He said fine overall but that he’s buying more guns than selling.
If you want an indicator of financial tightness in flyover country, keep an eye on how often rednecks relinquish their guns for cash.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)In a party that decries white privilege, newsome is the paragon of white privilege.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Education is a special industry. It fails in preparing its customer, and the customer decides to buy more education.
racket
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Appalling.
There is no “pain” signal on most of the taxes you list, because they are both mandatory and insidious. We all debate income tax rates but look at the amount of tax you pay on utility and telecom bills.
bullshit.
____________________________________________________________
Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)
